[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 25, Issue 62

[Andy Robinson]

Russ,

I am anticipating we can get address data from a free source. There are lots
of historical and administrative address databases out there and I would be
very surprised if we can't latch onto one freely. Some may even include
postcode data which would be a really interesting. All we then have to do is
match the address data with a location. Something we might be able to do
through a user interface. I.e., you find your location on the map and then
you lookup the address in the database. The final click links the two
together.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>[mailto:russ.phillips.nospam at googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Russ Phillips
>Sent: 13 September 2006 9:13 AM
>To: Andy Robinson
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 25, Issue 62
>
>On 13/09/06, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> At the rate of collection I believe that getting a full set of
>postal_codes
>> to make a usable system is going to take too long and that a fall back to
>> traditional address data is going to be required. Of course if you have
>> traditional address data its easy for individuals to add a post_code to
>> them.
>
>I don't disagree with any of that, but will traditional address data
>get added more quickly? Adding postcodes to FtP is quite a long-winded
>process, but I'm not convinced that adding house number/name
>information to OSM will be that much quicker/easier.
>
>That said, I don't *object* to people adding address data to OSM.
>
>Russ
>
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